| 正面 | 8772.coax 英 [kəʊks]美 [koks]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 谐音法：口渴死-----哄小孩让我口渴死了。2. 谐音“抠客私”-----连哄带骗地一点一点地从客人的口中抠他的隐私。3. coax <=====> hoax.vt. 哄；哄诱；慢慢将…弄好vi. 哄骗；劝诱 例句： 1. He was delighted to coax the monoplane to 330 m.p.h.这架单翼飞机在他的摆弄下时速达到了每小时330英里，他感到很高兴。 coax 哄诱来自cock拼写异体，俚语义笨蛋。 coaxcoax: [16] In the 16th and 17th century a cokes was a ‘simpleton, someone easily duped’ (it is not known where the word came from, although it might perhaps be related to cockney). To cokes someone was thus to ‘make a cokes of them, fool them’. This spelling survived until the 18th century, when it was supplanted by coax. The word’s meaning, meanwhile, had passed via ‘treat as a simpleton or pet’ and ‘fondle’ to ‘wheedle’.coax (v.)1580s, originally in slang phrase to make a coax of, from earlier noun coax, cox, cokes "a fool, ninny, simpleton" (1560s); modern spelling is 1706. Origin obscure, perhaps related to cock (n.1). Related: Coaxed; coaxing." |